Common Core State Standards Content Area: English Grade Level: Grade 11-12 Domain: Writing Cluster: Text Types and Purposes Standards: 3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
a. Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation and its significance, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events.
b.Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
c.Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole and build toward a particular tone and outcome (e.g., a sense of mystery, suspense, growth, or resolution).
d. Use precise word and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
What understandings are desired?
Students will understand that:(U)
•narrative writing is complex.
•well-structured event sequences are key to successful narrative writing.
•word choice and specific details set and alter narrative tone.
What essential questions will be considered?
Essential Questions:(Q)
•why is narrative writing complex?
•how are narratives developed?
•how do word choice and details work to create a specific narrative tone?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
Students will know:(K)
Students will be able to:(S)
•vocabulary such as: plot , theme, foreshadowing, allegory, allusion, characterization, conflict, diction, point of view, setting, and tone.
•sequence and timeline: how to form a plot using the correct sequence of events (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement, conclusion, resolution).
•critical details such as: the importance of theme and symbolism, character details (such as archetypes and foils), and the significance of time.
•describe the ideal sequence of events in a narrative.
•illustrate narrative tones through specific word choice.
•use telling details to create a layered narrative.
•analyze different themes addressed using different literary elements.
•consider different methods of developing a narrative.
•recognize the writing qualities in a narrative.
Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results
Content Area: English
Grade Level: Grade 11-12
Domain: Writing
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes
Standards: 3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
a. Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation and its significance, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events.
b.Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
c.Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole and build toward a particular tone and outcome (e.g., a sense of mystery, suspense, growth, or resolution).
d. Use precise word and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
What understandings are desired?
•well-structured event sequences are key to successful narrative writing.
•word choice and specific details set and alter narrative tone.
What essential questions will be considered?
•how are narratives developed?
•how do word choice and details work to create a specific narrative tone?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
•sequence and timeline: how to form a plot using the correct sequence of events (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement, conclusion, resolution).
•critical details such as: the importance of theme and symbolism, character details (such as archetypes and foils), and the significance of time.
•illustrate narrative tones through specific word choice.
•use telling details to create a layered narrative.
•analyze different themes addressed using different literary elements.
•consider different methods of developing a narrative.
•recognize the writing qualities in a narrative.
2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.